Tom Krattenmaker: Praise the shift by Focus on the Family

1:34 AM,
Apr. 17, 2013

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Tom Krattenmaker
For USA Today

"We've said we hate the sin and love the sinner," the evangelical speaker said to an auditorium of university students and professors. "But ... sometimes we hated the sinner, too, and that's not the Gospel."

The man making this astonishing admission? Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, the faith-and-family organization based in Colorado Springs that has been riling secular progressives, including yours truly, for many years.

That Daly would let his guard down like this tells you a lot about the change breaking out in evangelical America. It also explains why I brought not just ...